Andrew Sage

The next morning, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced that a new person of interest was detained.

The Providence police chief told NBC that they were confident that the suspect was the shooter.

Major news outlets later named this individual, though later that evening, this quote-unquote person of interest was released, with the Rhode Island Attorney General saying that the evidence, quote, now points in a different direction, unquote.

The shooter currently remains unidentified and at large.

On Sunday night in Sydney, Australia, a father and son, Sajid and Naveed Akram, coordinated a targeted attack against Jewish people attending a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach.

15 people were killed in the shooting.

Victims include a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor.

24 victims remain hospitalized.

A bystander named Ahmed al-Ahmed, a son of Syrian refugees, charged one of the gunmen and wrestled his gun away.

Ahmed was later shot multiple times but survived and has been labeled a hero by the Australian Prime Minister.

Police say that a vehicle used by the gunmen contained homemade Islamic State flags and improvised explosive devices.

The men were not part of an official terror cell, though the Prime Minister says that they were motivated by Islamic State extremist ideology.

Counterterrorism officials believe the shooters received quote-unquote military-style training in the Philippines a month before the attack.

On Tuesday, self-styled online investigators and right-wing social media content mills falsely identified the Brown University shooter as an LGBTQ Palestinian studying at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, citing gait analysis based on surveillance footage of the unidentified suspect released by police.

The university removed this queer Palestinian student's online profile in an effort to prevent doxing, though this itself was used by the online smear campaign as evidence of guilt.

Brown University later published this statement, quote, "...in the aftermath of the shooting, we've seen a harmful doxing activity directed towards at least one member of the Brown University community."

It's important to make clear that targeting individuals could do irrevocable harm.

Accusations, speculation, and conspiracies we're seeing on social media and in some news reports are irresponsible, harmful, and in some cases, dangerous for the safety of individuals in our community.

It is not unusual as a safety measure to take steps to protect an individual's safety when this kind of activity happens, including in regard to their online presence.

As law enforcement officials stated clearly on Tuesday afternoon, if this individual's name had any relevance to the current investigation, they would be actively looking for this individual and providing information publicly, unquote.